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Change needed at top

December 24, 2005|By Frank Roty.

GLEN ELLYN — It's long past time to replace Andy MacPhail and Jim Hendry. During their tenure, Carlos Zambrano, Dontrelle Willis and Jon Garland are the only players of any stature the farm system has produced. Incredibly, the coaching staff was recently re-signed, a staff that cannot induce the pitchers to throw strikes or the position players to learn and apply the fundamentals so critical to a winning team.

The most recent faux pas is the signing of Jacque Jones to take the roster spot of Corey Patterson, essentially a statistical tradeoff costing an additional $5 million per year. Time to hire a Ken Williams clone.